Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32,704, John Fuller, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Fuller, John
NUMBER _____
D. 32.704
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
2069
John Fuller Capt Putnam Private Mass. Line - 1775. By care
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of June 1818, and sent to Saml. Putnam, Esq. Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Semi-Annual
4 months 28/30. $ 39.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Middlesex, Esq. Co

John Fuller of Middleton in the county of Essex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Yeoman upon oath makes the following declaration.
That the said John Fuller on the 25 th day of April 1775 enlisted as a private for the term of eight months in Captain Enoch Putnam's Company of foot in Col. Israel Hutchinson's regiment. That the sa Declarant faithfully served the whole of said term in said Company and was honorably discharged.
That the declarant on the 27 day of December 1775 again enlisted as a private in the same Company and same regiment for the term of one year, immediately marched from Winter Hill to the Colleges at Cambridge thence into Boston as soon as it was evacuated by the British, thence to New York and through the Jerseys and faithfully served out the whole of the last mentioned term and about the first of January 1777 was honorably discharged in Trenton woods.
That the Declarant never received any written certificate of discharge.
That the Declarant is sixty years of age, infirm and from his reduced circumstances in life is now in need of assistance from his country for support and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the Laws of the United States
John Fuller

I Caleb Oakes of Danvers in said County Gentleman do on oath declare that I served as a soldier with the within named John Fuller as a year's man in 1776, and I verily believe his declaration within written is true. I was with said Fuller in the service during the year 1776 about ten months.
Caleb Oakes

Additional Affidavit.
I Thomas Putnam of Danvers Mass ts Gentle- man on Oath testify that I know John Fuller now of Middleton served from Jan y 1776 to Jan y 1777 as a Soldier in Capt. Enoch Putnam's Company in Hutchinson's Regiment on the Con- tinental Establishment.
John Fuller is now very poor
I served in the same Regiment the same year
Tho s Putnam
Essex ss: June, 10. 1818 Then the above named Capt. Thomas Putnam subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me Benj. Merrill Not. Pub l

John Fuller
Essex ss: June 15. 1818 I Samuel Putnam Judge as aforesaid further certify that Capt Thomas Putnam and Mr. Caleb Oakes are credible and disinterested Gentlemen, and that John Fuller the declarant is very poor and indigent -
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass'ts } 2

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ff.
On this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Samuel Putnam , one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth.
the aforementioned John Fuller & Caleb Oakes -- and in my presence severally subscribed and made solemn oath to the aforewritten Declaration and AFFIDAVIT , by them respectively made as aforesaid:—And it appearing to my satisfaction, that the aforementioned John Fuller served more than NINE MONTHS, to wit, from the Twenty seventh day of December A.D. 1775 -- to the first day of January A.D. 1777 at one period of the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Establishment, against the common enemy, I do hereby cer- tify the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the Department of War.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the Court a- foresaid, at Salem , this Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
S. Putnam Just S. J. Court of Mass s

John Fuller print
John
not on file
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1 - Decon 2 - Two credible witnesses 3 - Judge's Certificate that he saw the person at one period on Cont. Estab: d. y. he is poor.
Essex ss
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Ichabod Tucker clerk of all the Judicial courts of said State in & for the County of Essex do certify that the Hon Samuel Putnam is a judge of said Supreme Judicial court that the within signature is his proper hand writing, & that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said court
Salem April 20 1878
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
Essex ss: I further certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq. is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to administer oaths that his signature is under said Hon. Putnam's deposition
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
Ichabod Tucker

2069
M rs Fuller June 1878
M rs Fuller
Am.
age 62 laborer infirm worth $13.-
Apr 1878

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Fuller resident in Middleton in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 2069 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Fuller - - - - - late a Private , in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight - - - dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
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"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth day of June - - - one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
(no real estate & no income)
Seven articles of old and mean household stuff Five chairs, two tables, desk, pot, kettle, tea kettle, skillet, spider, handirons, knives, forks, spoons, crockery, coffee-pot, pig-pail - - - - - $ 12, 60
He is sixty two years old - a labourer - very infirm - has had his ribs broken and cannot work hard or earn much. His wife aged 58 is all his family.
He served as a year's man all 1776 in Capt. Enoch Putnam's company in Col: Hutchinson's Regiment in Massachusetts Line.
John Fuller.

Sworn to and declared before W m Wetmore Judge within named.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, John Fuller do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
John Fuller
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed John Fuller took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
thirteen dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D. 1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker

32704 Reply INVALID.
File No. 32,704
John Fuller Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 146
[Arrangement of 1870.]